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Tag Archives: circus in the bloodwarm rain
Today’s Wordcount and Other Notes (8/24/2014)
What I worked on today: Stated reading back through Circus in the Bloodwarm Rain to make sure things aren’t too wildly diverging from the outline. There’s going to be some serious word wrangling and wrestling to get it to all … Continue reading
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Today’s Wordcount and Other Notes (8/22/2014)
What I worked on: 1007 words on Circus in the Bloodwarm Rain, although I really need to start going back and making some of the early parts make more sense. Right now there’s an awful lot of leaping about between … Continue reading
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Today’s Wordcount and Other Notes (8/21/2014)
Lots of skipping around, often what I do when I’ve got several projects in the works. So here’s the breakdown and total: 650 words on Circus in the Bloodwarm Rain 673 words on “Carpe Glitter” 534 words on “Prairiedog Town” … Continue reading
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Getting Back in the Groove
For a long time I listen to the ocean, a background of some chirping insect, shrill arcs of sound going out against that massive, constant grumble. That is what life is like, singing out against that gray and empty grind, not caring what it sounds like, because singing is the only thing you can do.
I can feel my shoulders relaxing as I type, the guilt of several weeks (over a month, really) of getting little done, not just because of the traveling or the distractions but because I let myself get lazy and forget that what a writer does is write. If you want to call yourself one, that’s what is necessary and while that’s a hard standard to maintain consistently sometimes in the face of a multitude of crises of the mind or body or world or family, it’s one I hold myself to, first and foremost.
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You Should Read This: An Appreciation of Andre Norton
My high school years were steeped in reading from several F&SF authors. Among them, the most influential was quite probably Andre Norton. In arranging my book collection in those early days, Norton was always satisfying, because she wrote a gazillion books and I had most of them. I know three fantasy landscapes well because I wandered them so often as a young reader: Narnia, Middle Earth, and Norton’s Witch World.
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